Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories /

Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories /

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Author / Creator:Hrabal, Bohumil, author.
Imprint:Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (351 pages)
Language:English
Series:Beletrie
Beletrie.
Subject:
Kvorecký, Josef -- Translations into English.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Clergy.
Electronic books.
Translations.
Fiction.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11240459
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Other authors / contributors:Short, David, translator.
Kadlec, Václav, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
Grus, Jií, illustrator.
ISBN:9788024625812
8024625814
8024623161
9788024623160
9788024623160
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 15, 2015).
Summary:Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) has been ranked with Jaroslav Ha¿Łek, Karel Capek, and Milan Kundera as among the greatest twentieth-century Czech writers. Hrabal's fiction blends tragedy with humor and explores the anguish of intellectuals and ordinary people alike from a slightly surreal perspective. Rambling On is a collection of stories set in Hrabal's Kersko that depicts the hilariously absurd atmosphere of a tiny cottage community in the heart of a forest in the middle of totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Several of these stories were rejected by the Communist censors during the 1970s; this first Eng.
Other form:Print version: Hrabal, Bohumil. Rambling on : an apprentice's guide to gift of the gab : short stories. Prague, Czech Republic : Karolinum Press, ©2014 350 pages 9788024623160

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